Writing Portfolio

"You don't love someone because they're perfect. You love them inspite of the fact that they are not." Jodi Picoult - My Sister's Keeper

"How could he convery to someone who'd never met her the way she always smelled like rain or how his stomach knotted up every time he saw her shake loose her hair from its braid? How could he describe how it felt when she finished his sentences or turned the mug they were sharing so her mouth landed where his had been? How did he explain that they could be in a locker room, or underwater, or in the piney woods of Maine, but as long as Em was with him, he was at home?" Jodi Picoult - The Pact

"In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn; colour your hair; watch a third of a hockey game. In nineteen minutes, you can back scones or get a tooth filled by a dentist; you can fold laundry for a family of five. In nineteen minutes you can stop the world; or you can just jump off it." Jodi Picoult - Nineteen Minutes.

""I love you" he whispered, and that was the moment he knew what he was going to do. When you loved someone, you put their needs before your own. No matter how inconceivable those needs were; no matter how fucked up; no matter how much it felt like you were ripping yourself to peices." Jodi Picoult - The Pact

"Do you know what its like to love someone so much that you cant see youself without picturing them? Or what it's like to touch someone and feel like you've come home? What we had wan't about sex, or being with someone just to show off what you've got, the way it was for other kids our age. We were, well, meant to be together. Some people spend their whole lives looking for that one person. I was lucky enough to have her all along." Jodi Picoult - The Pact

"Forget the risk and tak the fall, if it's what you want then it's worth it all."

"The only thing worse than a boy who hates you - a boy who loves you." Markus Zusak - The Book Theif

"Like a three losing its leaves, I forget even the thing i was thinking." Jenny Downham - Before I Die

"I wonder if she knows i teach dancing now. And how every time i see two little girls, standing at the barre, sink into a plié, I think of us." Jodi Picoult - My Sister's Keeper